Eastern Sun, 14 May 1971

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN staorta own national daily Final edition 10 cents; Esrd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1644 Friday, May 14, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 360 1 jyjORAL decoy may set in if Singapore depends too much on tourism. A trade and industrial consultant, Mr Robert Hazell, gave this warning at a Rotary Club of Singapore West luncheon talk yesterday. He said when a country receives twice the number of tourists
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  • 60 1 This fireman, All bin Osman, 41, was overcome by fumes while fighting a $lOO,OOO blaze yesterday. H« is pictured being given oxygen after other firemen helped him down from the roof where he coHapsed. The blase roared through a canvas shop and warehouse in District 7.
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  • 34 1 BONN West German Finance Minister Alex Moeller is resigning from the Cabinet, a Government spokesman said yesterday. Economic Minister Schiller will become Joint Minister for Economics and Finance, he said.
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  • 78 1 PARIS The United States has offered to fly or send by sea North Vietnamese war prisoners to any agreed neutral country. The offer was made by chief U.S. negotiator David Bruce at yesterday's 113 th session of the stalled Vietnam talks exactly three years since
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 6 1 (GRunpio) For better sound. Jebsen& Jessen
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    • 91 1 Buy Jewellery of Distinction W Are little bills a big problem It is our business to take care of your problems. Especially financial problems. Like raising a big family. Like paying off bills. Like a housing or industrial loan. It is only by worrying about your financial problems big or
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  • 316 2 A fireman was admitted to hospital after he was overcome by fumes while fighting a $lOO,OOO blaze in Queen Street, District, 7, yesterday. He is Ali bin Osman, 41. He was overcome on the roof of the building but staggered to a ladder. Other firemen
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  • 72 2 Mystery .surra and* the death of a housrwlfe found dead In her bedroom yesterday. Bhe was Madam Chan Hwa Lee, 19, of Potong Pasir, off Serangoon Road. The dead woman'! husband, Mr Lee Teck Seng. 25. a clerk told the EASTERN BUN: "I was away at work on
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  • 346 2 The significance of a young girl's bleeding ear wet not noticed after she was admitted to hospital with a suspected froctured skull. State Coroner Mr Uew Nglk Kee said this yesterday when he recorded an open verdict on the death of the seven-year-old
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 57 2 SINGAPORE TOWN 10 am (M ft): <5? Mb <O4 ft); pm (74 ft); 6 S8 pan («tft). m pm (*.z n». NAVAL DOCEVARD •.30 am (10 ft): 6.40 am <O4 ft); ISi pm (9-3 ft); 741 pm <SJ» ft). Toto draw Thursday Toto Draw: 26. 29, 8, 2. 15. Additional
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  • 290 3 JJAIN fell yesterday 2.16 inches recorded of the RAF Seletar Meteorological Station and 0.46 recorded at the meteorological station at the airport. Weather deportment spokesmen described this os "very encouraging". Meanwhile, motor firm managers said they had instructed their workers to cut
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  • 96 3 Two labourers were drowned off Palao Ayer Chawan yesterday. They were 8- Mae. rtpan, 21, (pictured) and Teug gay Bee. Marrlpan. of Block A, Hindoo Road, off Serangoon Road, left his house at about 10.30 am. The two were returning to Singapore from the Bno
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  • 102 3 Twenty pairs of sore feet and aching muscles, belonging to members of RAF Changi's Theatre Clab, have hrourht in 12,000 Plus $470 worth of food gifts to two Singapore charities. The 11-mite fond-r\is- ing hike, sponsored at 50 cents a mile, brought mileN of smiles to
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  • 157 3 BRITAIN ana Brunei have announced accord on a revised agreement on defence and external relations. It had been negotiated In Foreign and Commonwealth Office talks with a Brunei Government delegation led by the Baler, Saltan Bass anal Bolkiah. The talks ended last week. The agreeoMnt
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  • 51 3 KANDANO Kerbau Police arrested eight youths and seized two cars and an assortment of weapons on Wedne*. day night. The youths belong to two gangs. They met for a "battle" at Race Course Road at about 9 pm. But police acting on a tip-off laid
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  • 156 3 A youth was punched and thrown into the Singapore River when he refused to pay $5O to eight youth* who claimed to be controlling that area, the Second District Court was told yesterday. One of the eight youths. Lee Hong Eng. 24, was arrested last
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  • Page 3 Advertisements

  • 230 4 SUN correspondent SINGAPORE au 7 soon replace llonikang M the "shoppers' paradise of the But" because of the current rent crisis in Hongkong. Unscrupulous Hongkonc landlords are raising rents on shop premises by a« mnch as 700 per cent and forcing shopkeepers
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  • 77 4 Weekends for Corporal William Woods 29, mean going for a swim at Changi. The only difference n Hut Corporal Woods, a clerk at Headquarters, Far East Command, spends his time bringing sunshine and happiness into the lives of the handicapped children in the pool at Hi«
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  • 185 4 raw iM Bake yourself j cake with fresh farm c«s today's mar* ket bargain at 14 tor Today's prices (In kati s unless other, wise mentioned): VEGETABLES Spinach $0.60 Brinjal $0 40 Turnip $0.15 Cauliflower $0 76 Angled loofah $0.20 Peppers $O.BO Long bean 9 $0.30
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 433 4 r M«W "fSL i CARNATION CONTEST STATEMENTS: 1. It weighs 14 ox. 2. It weight 14} ox. 3. It is made in Germany 4. It is ready to drink. 5. It is unsweetened. 6. It has increased Vitamins A D. 1. roe entry form will be published (tolly ID the
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  • 354 5 A girl hanged herself with a plastic hose after she scolded her boyfriend for drinking too much a Coroner's Court heard yesterday. Miss Zahara binte Ahmad, 21, was clutching a gold cross in her left palm when police found her hanging from a ceiling fan
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  • 111 5 Yesterday morning's heavy rain over the northern part of Singapore came as no surprise to the Fleet Air Ann ratings who maintain the Royal Navy's helicopters at the Far East Fleet Amphibious Forces Base at Sembawang. They say the credit should go to a Royal Navy
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 170 5 It's been a hard clay's flight lU t ilii llUlw :j» >• r i v >•• >m jr With some airlines the long haul flight is just that. A long haul. Not Lufthansa. We can't make a long haul a short one. But we can do things to make it
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  • 87 6 TOKYO Three U.S. pilots parachuted to safety In Japai'i Inland Sea yesterday after their two planes collided in mid-air. A U.S. Military spokesman said the 08-11 twin rnfined propeller planes collided daring a flight from Okinawa to Western Honshu. Japan's largest ialand The
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  • 233 6 UPI rpOKYO A Korean attempted to hi jock o Japanese airliner to North Korea yesterday but was arrested after the aircraft mode on emergency landing at Tokyo International Airport. Police said tfce MM, Ckwng K», 48 was mentally deranged. Chun* summoned a stewardess five
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  • 107 6 COLOMBO The Government aays resistance by youthful Che Guevara" insurgent* u dying out. Only a fe« hardcore terrorists are holding out in the deep south'* Royal Lion forest. A Government statement said an Insurgent leader. "Lion" was killed by military forces in a Jungle encounter Another rebel
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  • 233 6 JERUSALEM Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban has said Israel will not commit itself to a withdrawal from the Snex Canal frontline without prior approval of the Parliament. DURBAN Fifty Africans were feared drowned on Wednesday when their bus was washed off a low bridge into the flooded
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 187 7 Turkey Turkish army units yesterday rushed relief supplies to victims of Wednesday's earthquake. The quake, centred on Burder, some 220 mites southwest of Ankara, killed 65 persons, according to unofficial reports. But the Government put the toll 48. sayin e reports from some
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  • 117 7 CATANIA, Sicily. A river of lava has burst from Mount Etna, biroye's hitheit active volcano. It threatens 2,000 people la a village perched on Its rambfinr slopes. The boiling lava to moving at nearly 1,000 feet an hoar. Hie little village of Fornaxae. 2,600
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  • 63 7 Reuter SOME Bvtittte Bardot mad lUbt Claudia Cardinale will a Iki ta BptaUni la re part en as she flew iato Kovne from New York. Min Cardinale said the fllai woald be made la Freaeh. II weald be called "Les Fetroleosea CTlie Fire-raisers)." Miss Claudia
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 139 8 WASHINGTON The United States supersonic airliner (SST) possible rival of the Concorde received a new lease of life yesterday when the House of Representatives twice narrowly voted new government funds for It. In vote« of 201-105 and >Ol-197 the House acted to provide almost 8*256
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  • 149 8 Reuter LONDON Two young brothers watched horrified as their 10-year-old sister was bludgeoned to death with an axe at their home. Detectives are now waiting at the hospital bedside of a 25-year-old man who was taken from the house unconscious shortly. This was shortly
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  • 78 8 CHICHESTER, Sueland Princess Margaret was among an audience of 1,400 ordered oat of a theatre last night after a bomb scare The Princess and a party of local dignitaries had just sat down to watch a gala performance of Sheridan's "The Rivals." A theatre official
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 603 9  -  Smoking vs inflation burielee Dn George Gallup and I don't agree. He's Just issued hit latest poll on the 10 top problems of the world, alter speaking to national leaders and prominent persons. Not wanting to be left out I decided to list my 10 top problems.
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 9 Naturally, with i name like Candice Glcndenning, the 17-year-old aetret* get* called Candy tor abort. Or maybe it't because »be look* good enough to eat. Bwt whatever you call Candxe ike'i tweet yoM*g thing.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 35 9 This Sunday in THE SUN HUSBAND FOR SALE! Harry Brown wants to sell himself to a woman lor $35,000. But the girls don't think he's worth buying. Read why in the Super SUN. Singapore's brightest
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  • 507 10 are indeed, as Mr Rahim ishak, Minister of state for Foreign Affairs. Jho* eS Ao^?r lca nd Pessimists" who believe that ASEAN will not survive. They might be influenced by the failure of other reAQrAIt 0 L ganlsatlons or ml Bht contend that AbtJVN has not produced any
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  • 742 10  -  By Max Lerner YORK In terms of hard fact there is nothing in the Middle East situation that could not be resolved if there was a simultaneous double-phased withdrawal. The Israelis would withdraw from their 1967 conquered territory and the Russians from Egypt which is in effect
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 137 10 SIR: IT'S amazing how our traffic police are never around when they're needed. The other afternoon I got caught in a massive traffic jam at the intersection of Stevens Road and Dunearn Road. is the worst jam I've ever seerv It took me nearly
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    • 116 10 SIR: MUCH has been said in and out of Parliament on the acute shortage of police officers and education officers (including teachers). But what about the many among them who have been on secondment elsewhere? The tax-paying public should know: e How many of these civil
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • SUNSCOPE
    • 304 11 UPI BRITISH rock star Mick Jogger on Wednesday shrugged oH a last minute Argument with the St Tropes police chief and married his Nicoraguan girlfriend. Bianco. Hippies on bicycles mingled with guest* arriving In Rolls Royce limousines. Photographers and Journalists crammed Into the mayor's tiny
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    • 200 11 "WHEN I wake at night now. I'm alone. The future stretches blankly ahead of me, and I'm scared stiff. "To have someone yon have lived with for six years walh oat on you f J marry a girl half your age Is shattering. "When Philip's
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    • 335 11 Looking for someone to love PART TWO SUN EXCLUSIVE "SOMEWHERE there must be on ordinary nun who wants love and companionship. And if there is, I'll find him." Barbara Williams, attractive, warm and giving. Is looking for someone to love. Bhe la a determined
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  • THE MORMNG AFTER with Weatherbee Wong
    • 1028 12/13 fact that entertainment tax is to be increased hasn't put a damper on new clubs. The El Amigo are planning to open Maxim's towards the end of July and are now negotiating with the Commandos to supply the beat. The Commandos, who recently
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  • Page 12/13 Advertisements
    • 382 12/13 Alprcv^Jo T ha 41'• N 'Baiter than hfti' featuring the fantastic Korj dancers who float from driima to comedy to with unsurpassed arti.-ir». Judith Von Bachs to a su*pen*eful dance actWatch Jimmy Jeß f >° Bambl In their acrobatic#. oh«wtimea> >0 pin A IHS pm Mu»le by Fred Ramoa and
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    • 54 12/13 Opening Tomorrow m p wk —iM m pv"| \yk S& s r; 5 r ."Ttrtesi *r N. 51B0IDER PAi-ACE CHINESE RESTAURANT Let our specialist chefs from Taiwan delight you with unforgettable Szechuan Cusines. Good place for all occasions. We accept group bookings from June. <*A~HOTEL Hovaloclt ftd .S'por* 3. T*l:
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    • 46 12/13 iSutiiti jfcunge FOR THE EXECUTIVE SET Enjcy your favourite cocktail with Rjcardo on his guitar to enchant you with his sentimental balads. BIRD BOTTL I RESTAURANT 377, Bukit Timah Road. 3) Miles, Singapore Tel: ***** b *****9 (Plenty o» Parking Spm. We are doted on Monday)
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    • 75 12/13 3-A. CUSCAOEN ROAQ k SINGAPORE 10 TEL 3KXMQ 6 o.m to 2 a-m (NO COVER CHARGE I Every Saturday SIRLOIN STEAK $9.00 Sunday T eoNE STEAK $9OO CHICKEN KING POOLSIDE praw NS $BOO HAMBURGER 5 00 The above main dishes will be served with Vegetables.' KSWM iW Mixed Salad. Roll,
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  • sunscene
    • 81 15 It looks a bit like o giant, macabre painting, or a scene from a new horror movie. But it's a scene from a new ballet, believe it or not. Members of the Warsaw Grand Opera and Ballet Theatre created this ballet, along with two others
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    • 40 15 playboy Production, and Columbia rirtures have entered into a tthree-year multi-fllm commitment. Plan s call for at least four feature films during the term of the new association. First mutual venture la Roman Polanslrt'a film of "Macbeth".
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    • 335 15 bad guesses ore made in the manufacture of motion pictures than in any other line. Studio-emancipated actors are making most of them. The sorry evidence is everywhere. Mario Thomas eventually rose to popularity a s TV's "That Girl**. But «he might have hit the big time
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 217 15 ffiEO:ttT7 ORGANISATION LIDO *****4 LAST DAY! 4 Show* Note Time* 11 am, t.M 6 A 8.00 pm Sieve McQueen "The Gieal K»f»pf Scope-Color (OAI Open." Tomorrow! Burt Lancaster "LAWMAN" Color by DtLuie tUAI CAPITOL 297A0 Last 2 Uaym! No Free LLst 11 am, 1.30. 6.45. :U» pm Ling Yun "6
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    • 171 15 IVTcM^:fU(O ORCHARD J 765 81 NOW SHOWING! Hhows: I :<O, 400. 6.50. *.15 pm AHH rt<*iKlNOt L> Carry On Cp T*« Jangl* with the "Carry Oa" Team in Pnlnt RuUk CATHAY J3400 I Now Showing! No Free U»t U IM 1 The Gallant Da«" Mano Wane Yu Taun Lao Uua
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  • 552 16  -  ANN LANDERS T\EAR Ann: I'm a 19-year-old youth who feels like an idiot. I'm better than average In looks, a good dresser and hold a good )ob. The problem: I have no trouble getting a first date, m fact fti'ls call me. but I'm such
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 764 16 TAURUS CARROLL RIGHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: The morning can bring an upset In dealing with another person unless you make a special point of saying a "d doing nothing which a partner feel* i s against him or against your Joint interests. The rest of the day and evening la fine
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 951 17 fa singapura CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by CENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital FOR THK FAMILY A magazine series presented in English A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (English) IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINCAPORE (English) Topic: Citizens The Government A
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  • YOUNG SUN
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      99 18 A wU koala straight from the Austrolion bosh yawned and settled down plocidly in Dr B.A. Woodward's Melbourne home after being rescued recently with o broken leg. While Dr Woodward was consulting a neighbouring veterinarian, his children collected eucalyptus leaves to feed the koola everyone knows
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    • 366 18 RECENTLY I wos one o# the lucky ones selected to attend o three-week course ot the Outward Bound School at Pulau Übin. Altogether twenty tee cadets were selected, end I was overjoyed end determined to go. But after a briefing by the warden of the
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    • 269 18 Gardeners look upon snoils and slugs os pests beeouse they destroy plants. There are over 47,000 different kinds of snails and slugs which belong to a group of creatures called moNuses, a Latin word meaning "soft body". Snails and dugs have
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 186 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Ihi Utlira Sun ctU) uxitcn tar boy* and firis of 14 and andat (junior and boy* and girl avar 14 (Softior) appear* tm this page on Friday. Prtoe mof*> SlO to* Sanlo n arc tc tunic X* «M«rv MMV OUbHrfWO A 4 entrant? are tQLKitte
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  • Woman Talk
    • 432 19  -  by Florence de Santis T ONG pants have become a staple, and as happens with staples in fashion, long pants are disappearing from the high-fashion collections. But they are just about in every other class, and most particularly in knits. Knits
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    • 43 19 Models Wendy Fwwton (foreground) and Jan Davit give us a preview of the latest styles in Sydney swimwear. Jan wears a revealng bikini in a psychedelic print. Wendy displays a one-piece in a floral print.
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 73 21 Brtdgestone Singapore Company Private Limited, will be sending tlx of their staff to the parent Company In Japan, Brldgestone Tire Co. Ltd. at the end of May and June thLs year. They ar<» M/a. Chlng Chee Kheng, Wee Ho Chye, (Electricians) Chee Han Seng. Junior Technical
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    • 312 21 SYDNEY—Steady buying of heavyweight stocks, brightened the mining market on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Wednesday's strong support for the Bougainville Partners, CRA and New BH, yesterday spread to other established miners such as Kathleen Investments, Queensland Mines, and North BH. Kathleen Investment* Improved 10 cent*
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    • 249 21 The restricted tradinq week due to holidays on Friday and Monday, has seen quieter and on balance, easier conditions, whilst the marfcet has continued to move erraticaNy. Dollar crtsia uncertainties and hopes of a successful Malaysian Trade MLsslon to China Initially made for a steadier tone,
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    • 82 21 RADIO Singapore will broadcast a half-hour programme on "Careers in Advertising" tomorrow at 4 p.m. The programme was Eepared In collabora>n with the Advertisers Association. Topics covered will Include aspects of advertising agency work, the three main areas of employment in the advertising industry and lalarles. An
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    • 147 21 BANGKOK Economic Affairs Minister Buncha na Atthakor, will lead a 3i-man Thai mission to the Soviet Union tomorrow. The trip will widen trade relations with Russia as well as Communist nations in Eastern Europe. Before returning on June 8. the Thai delegation will
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 328 21 APPOINTMENTS Singapore Polytechnic Pott-graduate Scholarship in Polfmer Technology APPLICATIONS are Invited from suitably qualified persona lor tbe award of a Colombo Plan Post-graduate Scholarship in Polymer Technology tenable in UK for a duration of 1-2 years leading to a professional qualification. Applicants must possess the Singapore Polytechnic Diploma In Rubber/
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    • 770 21 TENDER NOTICES Singapore Customs Tender Notice 2/71 TENDERS will bo received up to 13 noon on Friday. 38th May. 1971 for the purchase of the following confiscated goods: (a) 18 cellophane katt containing approximately Tw lb*. of Mnnmodlnu Glntauiate; (b) 7 PM. Radio PhonofrapU (Columbia 208) p<» Kadlo PbonoKniph (Toshiba
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  • 3089 22 SATURDAY Scratchings Rate l: Actor IV Race 4: Zero One I Race 7: Pil Marshal Race 2: King's Row. Race 5: Insure. WhlsRickshaw Lass Okay Okay pering Wind Race 8: Nil Race 3: W a tan la ComRace 6: Red Mink, Race 9: Spruce 11. man do 1
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 203 23 TOKYO Three golfers, Chen Chien-Chin of Taiwan, Kenji Hosoishi of Japan and Terry Kendall of New Zealand, tied for Hie first round lead of the Japan Airlines open here yesterday with three-under par 69' t. U.B. Open champion Tony Jacklin of England
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    • 45 23 SEOUL Indonesia placed third by beating Malaysia 4-2 in their final match of the first Asian Soccer Tournament for the Presidential Cup at the Seoul Stadium here yesterday. Malaysia finished the tournament in fourth place. Indonesia led 2-1 at half time.
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    • 325 23 Hamilton Sports Club struck winning form when it scored a 6-1 victory over Darul Afiah in the FAS Senior League last night at Jalan Besar Stadium. Hamilton scored five goals in the first-half. Hamilton played a steady game, with a better ball control and well
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    • 20 23 MacPherson Secondary School s Annual Athletic Meet will be held at the school ground at 2 pm today
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    • 35 23 Singapore Cricket Club beat Singapore Recreation Club 2-1 in th«» SUA Division Two hockey fixture played at the Padang yesterday. In a football friendly, Singapore Cricket Club and Hamshire SC drew 2 all.
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    • 80 23 NEW YORK Results of Wednesdays' major league baseball games: American League New York 3. Milwaukee 0, Baltimore 6, Kansas City 0, Chicago 5, Washington 0 (first game) Chicago 9. Washington 5 (second game) Oakland 8, Cleveland 1, Detroit 8, California 1, Minnesota 1, Boston 0. National League Houston
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    • 173 23 HONGKONG Honpkonr will host tho seventh annual Bowling World Cap Championships Nor. 2-28, organisers said yesterday. The organised by the American Machine Foundry (AMF) Corp. or New York, will be held at the Fourseas Bowline Centre In downtown Kowloon. "Forty-three countries have enrolled
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    • 240 23 PENANG Discipline showed rest improvement in a workout here yesterday morning. Ridden by Chiam Toon Soon, he sprinted smartly over 3f in 38 2/5 on a good track. Another good gallop was done by INTELLECTUAL when he strode out stylishly over 3f in 38 4/5 with
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  • 167 24 PARIS Prance has raised its bank rate by one-Quarter per cent from six and a half to six and three quarters per cent. CAIRO Egypt's president Anwar Sadat, making a surprise visit to his troops on the Sues Canal front, warned that the chances for peace were now
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  • 238 24 JJRUSSELS Britain and the Common Market Six yesterday appeared to have brought British entry into Europe dramatically nearer. A set of major breakthroughs followed a 13-hour overnight marathon negotiating session here. "If I were you I would bet on success," Chief British negotiator Geoffrey Rippon, beaming, told
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  • 83 24 "Money For The Taking" is what a sign said and that's just what a group of spastics children did. Twenty-one children, aged 10 to 17, of the Spastics Children's Association. visited the First National City Bank to catch their first glimpse of a cool million dollars
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  • 147 24 VATICAN CITY The Vatican yesterday strongly denied that younq Indian girls had been sold to European convents. But It admitted there had been some fallings In the system of recruitment. In a statement on the findings of an international Investigation Into a "nun-running" scandal,
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  • 64 24 HONGKONG Chinese Premier Chou En Lai said yesterday President Nixon's desire to visit Peking "could be something In the air, the start of something." Chou also was quoted as saying by a member of the Philippine trade mission which came out of China yesterday
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  • 174 24 NATO COMMITTMENT WASHINGTON President Nixon would veto legislation to reduce American forces in Europe if it cleared Congress, Senate Republican leaded Hugh Scott said yesterday. "President Nixon will not and cannot accept a reduction of forces by congressional flat," Senator Scott told reporters at
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  • 180 24 KAMPALA A reward of one million shillings (*****,000) was offered yesterday by Uganda to anyone who brings back alive ex-President Milton Obote. Dr Obote. who Is living In Tanzania, was overthrown in a military takeover on January 25. Rewards of 500.004 shillings <*****.»00) were
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 34 24 I The weather bar e a a predicts late morninf showers. YESTERDAY Maximum Temp: 87.4 Minimum Temp: 79.6 Rainfall: 6.47 Total Rain in May: 0.97 Raindays: 4 Sunshine: 3.30 Humidity at 11 pm: 92
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